TTC a Girl Sway Attempt
Gender Result: Unknown
DW Age: 34
DH Age: 35
Current Children's Gender(s) 1dd and 3 ds
Number of Months TTC 1
Did you purchase and follow a GD Personalized Plan? No
DIET
Did you follow a diet plan? Yes
If yes to diet, which one did you most follow?
Comments regarding DW's diet changes- I am vegetarian anyways(have been all my life) but I eat a high fat diet so drastically cut fat,protein,cals at least by half of what I normally eat even though I did stay on the high end of 1500-1800 cals daily but I was full time nursing also. Also drank diet coke last 2 weeks and I am not a soda drinker or artificial sweetner person at all. I usually have lots of ewcm and it was completely dried up and think that was from diet.
If diet was used, length of time before attempt? 5 weeks
Did you skip breakfast regularly? Yes
Did DH change his diet with you? No
Comments regarding DH's diet- He did not do any supps or eat any differently. I did tell him it might be good for him to have a few beers and he did:)
DId you consume alcohol?- A couple of drinks per week
DId you try to limit caffeine? No, I did not factor that into my sway
Any Diet Details? I am not a coffee/soda drinker only caffeine I get is from choc. and I had to cut that back because of diet anyway
Any Diet Comments/Additional Info? vegetarian so there was no meat or fish in my diet but I did eat eggs almost every morning to get me through. while i did skip the time for breakfast and eat around 11-12 I still had 3 meals a day within my cal,protein,fat limits
WEIGHT AND EXERCISE
What did you weigh/BMI do leading up to O? forget but lost a total of 4 lbs. I was a reg. weight to begin with and didn't go hardcore on diet since I was nursing so wasn't much to lose
Any Weight/Exercise related additional info/comments? tried to exercise since I am a non exersizing person but it was hard to keep up on such a low cal diet
THINGS in VG and CONCEPTION DATE(CD) INFO
pH Before Starting a Sway Program, if known didn't test
Any VG potions used?
CM pH at attempt -
DH pH tested his about week before and it was high at 8
How many BD attempts did you make for the BFP cycle? 2
BD Dates according to Ovulation- 2 Days Before O
- 1 Day Before O
Any additional comments? was taking opk's multiple times of day to catch beginning of surge. tested neg. at 4:30 pm and then caught a + at 10pm. freaked and did 1/2 tube of rephresh and also dh and I took benedryl and dtd 1 hour later. on top then jump and dump since we did not do fr or abstain so was trying to reduce sperm that way. was scared of doing only 1 attempt to in the morning about 12 hours later went for another attmept. was very dry at this point so didn't use rephresh or anything and just hopped on last minute to "catch it" lol. there wasn't much so I ran to room and laid on bed for 5 min. for that batch:)
THE DEED INFO
DH Info about Swimmers
BD Position Multiple
Did you Jump and Dump?
Any relevant attempt details? on top both positions, very dry(vs having lots of ewcm with my boys) also no O vs- always Oing 1st with my boys so just tried to do things differently:)
SUPPLEMENTS USED
DW Supplements
DH Supplements -
Any additional supplement info? only took benedryl an hour before attempt. took folic acid and also took soy iso's (80 )cd 2-6
Did you do anything with Ions? yes washed with lavendar soap,lotion, and had salt rock lamp, lavender oil burning
Moon Phase during conception? New Moon
Did you use any Old Wives Tales? put girlie outfit under bed:)
Things that make me feel great about my sway: the fact that i had no ewcm
Things that make me nervous about my sway: me and dh make boys:)
Things worth mentioning: the moon and all the other hocus pocus lined up perfectly for us but i still did all this with a good heart and to have a baby happy with whatever gender just trying to sway the odds a lil bit more in favor for a girl:)
